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Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England · United Kingdom

Menston

Menston is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Menston
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The place

Menston is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is within Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, along with Burley in Wharfedale. A small part of Menston, south of the village, is outside the civil parish in the Guiseley and Rawdon ward of the City of Leeds. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 4,498. The village is home to St Mary's Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy, a secondary school with academy status in the part of Menston included in the City of Leeds. Menston is situated near the towns of Guiseley and Otley, with which it shares strong transport and community links. The name Menston derives from the Old English Mensaingtūn meaning 'settlement connected with Mensa'.

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Getting to Menston

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 6 km · Manchester (MAN), 70 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 96 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Menston
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–9
  • Liverpool → Menston
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Menston
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £12–16
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Menston

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Menston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    288 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    349 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    357 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    361 km

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Around it

Next door to Menston

Menston is 11 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.